Researching for his book on
From
Guernica to Vietnam, David
Irving and his wife visited Guernica on May 11, 1967, and
developed archival sources in the Basque city.

On April 25, 1987 he wrote this letter to:

The Editor,

The Daily Telegraph,

135 Fleet Street, London EC4

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London, April 25, 1987

Sir,

THE DAY THE CONDOR LEGION
RAZED GUERNICA

MAY I offer two significant corrections to Hugh
Thomas' article (Apr. 25)?

The death roll, which I investigated in Guernica from
hospital and cemetery records [e.g.,
ATTACHED] was probably ninety-eight; the
Communists' own local newspaper Euzkadi Roja
published a list of thirty injured civilians by name
[ALSO ATTACHED]. Rather small
beer, but like the "thirty thousand" killed by the Nazis in
Rotterdam the subsequent propaganda about Guernica served
its lethal purpose.

Pablo Picasso, as his sketchbooks show, began work
on his famous cartoon "Guernica" some time before the
actual event.